- SS Minnedosa
SS "Minnedosa" was a 15,000 ton steam
ocean liner built inGlasgow on theRiver Clyde for theCanadian Pacific Shipping Line byBarclay Curle in 1918. She was used on theLiverpool toSt John, New Brunswick run and called at all the major transatlantic ports. She carried numerous immigrants toCanada and theUnited States and for a period in the late 1920s was commanded by CaptainRonald Niel Stuart , VC and was entitled to fly theBlue Ensign as a result.In 1935 she was sold for scrap, but was purchased by Mussolini's Italian government and refitted as a troopship named "Piemonte". She was employed throughout the
Second World War , which she survived, only to be scrapped in Italy in 1949.External links
* [http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=minnd SS Minnedosa, Norawy Heritage- Hands Across the Sea]
* [http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/CP3.html#anchor228608 photograph of the SS "Minnedosa"]
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